PATEA MAIL Established 1875. CIRCULATION nearly 600 COPIES. Average circulation last year, 510. Wednesday Evening, June 7, 1882.

Patea Mail, 7 June 1882, Page 2

PATEA MAIL Established 1875. CIRCULATION nearly 600 COPIES. Average circulation last year, 510.

Wednesday Evening, June 7, 1882.

Delivered on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, Evenings by mounted messengers —at Hawera by 7-30 . o’clock, at Normanby by 8-15, at Manaia and Waimate Plains‘by 8-30,, and Southward at Waverley (for train) by 6- o’clock

Messrs Nolan and Co’s sale of stock takes nlace to-morrow at Hawera,

Mr F. Keir, of Marton,, has been elected bandmaster of the Hawera Band. Mr F. R. Jackson’s Kakaramea sale of stock takes place on Friday. The entries show 1020 head.

The £5,000 loan scheme being lost for want of 3 votes, we believe the Borough Councillors desire to place another loan scheme .before the public, and that steps will be taken at next Tuesday’s meeting for this purpose. A modification of the present scheme; jrill probably be proposed. ' Mr B. Horner was to-day elected chairman of the Patea County Council, Mr Chapman having resigned that office. Mr Horner is so heartily liked by all who' know him, that this honor seems to have come to him much later than it ought to have done. ~ 1

Mr William Cowern will offer for’sale on Friday, at the Heads, the wreck of the ss Patea.

The weekly quadrille assembly opens tb-morrow evening, in the Harmonic Hall

Hawera is promised hew post and telegraph offices; also a daily .delivery of letters within the borough. The: vacancy in the Normanby Town Board, through the retirement of Mr Quin, has been filled by the election of Mr C. H. Beresford, elected without opposition.

Colliery Explosion. Black - Horse Colliery, near Durham, caught fire on April 18. One hundred men were im , prisoned in ; the workings. There were between sixty and seventy men in the colliery when the explosion occured. Twenty-nine have been rescued alive ; one, however, has since died, and the latest return shows that thirty-seven lives have been lost. ‘

Otoia Licensing Committee sat today at Kakaramea, and renewed all the existing licenses. Puller report held over. Hiroki is to be hanged to-morrow, at New' Plymouth, for the murder of McLean-

Tenders for street formation were, received and accepted by the Borough Council on Monday as follows :—No 1 formation and other works in Victoria and Cambridge streets: D. Anderson (accepted) £BS, D. Donovan £93, P. Began £97, Kirkpatrick £ll7, D. Scally £129,- M’L'anghin 131 10s, J. Hughes £144 15s, Kendal and Bush L225.—N0 2,Lerbing footpaths in por-: tiohs of Egmont, Dorset, and; Cambridge streets: Kendall and Bush; (accepted) £49 10s, J. Hughes £99, Kirkpatrick £2 3s 3d per chain, D. : Scally £2 15 per chain.—No 3, earth-; work in Chester and Cornwall streets :■ D. Do'navan [accepted] £l4 2s 6d, D. Scally £l6, MLaughin £lB 175," P. Regan LlB 15s, Kirkpatrick L2l, Kendall, and Bush L 23 10s, J. Hughes. L 32 ss.—No 4, forming footpath in Egmont street north to borough boundary: M’Laughin [accepted] LB, Kendall and Bush LlO 10, Kirkpatrick Ll3, J. Hughes Ll3 12, D. Scally 13s 6d per chain, D. Anderson Ll 4s per chain.

- Steam service with England is shortly to be proposed to Parliament. . Mr Johnston, in answer to a question, said it is the intention of Government in a short time to make proposal to the House, with a view to establishing a steam service between England and this Colony.

An ugly tramp tried to kiss, a Chicago belle the other day, but she had the presence of mind to raise her foot, and while he was hunting for a ladder to climb over it she struck the fire alarm.